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Re: [FWP] Puzzle - Temp file creation

To: "Bernie Cosell" <bernie@rev.net>
Subject: Re: [FWP] Puzzle - Temp file creation
From: Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com>
Date: 14 Jul 1999 11:49:15 -0400
Cc: fwp@technofile.org
In-Reply-To: "Bernie Cosell"'s message of "Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:58:59 -0400"
References: <v04205149b38092426651@[205.158.144.206]>; from Vicki Brown on Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 02:02:00PM -0700 <199907141357.JAA30400@mercury.rev.net>

>>>>> "BC" == Bernie Cosell <bernie@rev.net> writes:

BC> [bernie@mercury script]$ perl -e '$a = "zzzz"; $a++ ; print $a, "\n" '
BC> aaaaa

BC> and so it isn't clear it *can* fail... it might loop forever...

Loop forever?

length("zzzz") == 4	length("aaaaa") == 5

perl -wle '$a="z"; print ++$a'
aa

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